Vueling’s cheap flights and customer service-focused approach have brought the budget airline success, despite breaking every commandment in the low-cost carrier bible. 

It is often cited that the BRIC economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – offer the best opportunities for growth. It would therefore follow that outward FDI flows from these countries are also expanding but only one of the so-called 'big four' appears in the top five countries in terms of outward FDI growth.

Jan Hoffmeister, the managing director of global virtual data room provider Drooms, explains how important it is for the company to remain limber and adapt to emerging M&A trends.

Thailand's hotel and tourism industry has gone from strength to strength over the past half century and locally owned Dusit International has been well placed to take advantage of this. Opened in 1948, it has evolved from a Bangkok boutique to an international hotel chain catering for the growing number of people travelling both into and out of south-east Asia.

Complex and inflexible employment laws can cause serious problems for  foreign investors looking to enter Latin America.

Multinational corporations in emerging markets are increasingly looking to combine forces with companies in Europe and the US, benefiting from the technology and brand equity of companies in the developed markets. 

The managing director of IBM Venture Capital Group, Claudia Fan Munce, says that bright new start-ups are appearing all over the world, and her team is hitting the road to find them.

HJ Heinz is a household brand in the West, but now the food manufacturer is looking to conquer emerging markets such as Brazil and China. 

Huge opportunities exist in emerging economies for retailers, but expansion into these markets requires local knowledge, meaning that not even the largest global retailers are guaranteed success.